Let’s say that by some miracle the pause button has been hit on global warming and we now have a short window to save the planet. Under such a scenario, what kind of climate piggy will you be?
Science is clearly telling us that humans are warming the planet to a dangerous degree. Should we keep burning fossil fuels with abandon we well see more extreme changes in our in our climate. Some believe we already doomed. Continue reading
I stole this iPad image from an Apple Web site. Shh.
(Editor’s Note: What follows is a rather technical discussion on how to go abroad with a lot of new techno crap. Should you decide to embark on such an adventure, make sure you consult with someone who actually knows what he or she is talking about.)
Before heading out on a long trip to Asia, I realized I was facing a stark technology deficit. I had recently left my old company that consistently kitted me out with the most curmudgeonly equipment available. But now I was digitally adrift. Continue reading
So Joe Oliver, Canada’s Natural Resources Minister, marched down to Washington and gave the proverbial finger to one of America’s most renowned scientists.
Jim Hansen, the esteemed scientist formerly of NASA, is spewing “nonsense” when he is talking about global warming and Canada’s Keystone pipeline, according to Oliver, a former investment banker turned heavy oil mouthpiece. Continue reading
Will Obama Tackle Global Warming?
Rahm Emanuel, the former top aide in the White House, once advised a world struggling with a financial meltdown that it was not good to let a serious crisis go to waste.
But this year, despite electoral momentum and tragedies by the handful, serious crises could go very much to waste for President Barack Obama. Could this mean the world will have to wait yet again for serious action to fight global warming? It depends. Continue reading
Fill the moat. Raise the drawbridge. Steady those crossbows on the turrets. We should be safe in here.
Can we one day say goodbye to these?
The ferocity of the storms were hard to ignore in the five years we lived in Washington, D.C. Summer or Winter, big storms would seem to arise out of nowhere, causing a lot of destruction, human and otherwise, throughout the U.S. Northeast. Continue reading
Imagine a country of more than 300 million people where corporations can freely test radical new products on the unsuspected without regard to regulatory oversight or court interference? Welcome to the Land of the Guinea pig, Home of the Glow in the Dark. Continue reading
After moving into an apartment near Toronto’s trendy Distillery District in late 2012, I walked over to the old Gooderham and Worts facility, a Canadian historic site now alive with boutiques and restaurants. In need of ground coffee at home, I proceeded to Balzac’s coffee, a small Toronto-area roaster with a growing reputation. Continue reading
For American consumers, the Keystone Pipeline project will prove pointless. For the environment, it’s another blow. Expect President Barack Obama to approve it later this year.
The Keystone XL pipeline aims to substantially ramp shipment of Canadian oil sands crude to hungry U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. Big Oil is lined up against an impressively organized green movement but expect oil companies to prevail as it is difficult to see how the White House will resist the oil lobby, especially after the latest State Department report, which gives the administration the cover it needs to approve. Continue reading
TERESA can’t remember now whether it was the helicopter blades or the knock at the door that she heard first. After all, chopper blades were a common sound in the city; like the sirens as well; this is what you heard all day and all night, if you really stopped to listen. Continue reading